Security researcher Tobias Boelter has found a backdoor in WhatsApp that allows the company to read encrypted messages. WhatsApp has stated to be aware of the issue and won't fix it because it considers it to be 'expected behavior'.

Read the full article here: [http://www.myce.com/news/whatsapp-contains-backdoor-allows-reading-encrypted-messages-81228/](http://www.myce.com/news/whatsapp-contains-backdoor-allows-reading-encrypted-messages-81228/)
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I can’t say I didn’t see something like this coming. After all, WhatsApp is a proprietary app that is currently owned by Facebook… so [I]of course[/I] it’s going to have a backdoor. You can’t actually expect Facebook to care about your or your privacy until [I]after[/I] hell has frozen over.